{"id":21265,"date":"2025-02-18T18:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/optimism-in-options-following-ethereums-pectra-hard-fork\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T18:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:31:12","slug":"optimism-in-options-following-ethereums-pectra-hard-fork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/optimism-in-options-following-ethereums-pectra-hard-fork\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimism in Options Following Ethereum&#8217;s Pectra Hard Fork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interest in call options expiring after the Pectra hard fork on the Ethereum network is reshaping the cryptocurrency market amid uncertainty surrounding actions by U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a report by QCP Capital.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Asia Colour \u2014 18 Feb 25<\/p>\n<p>1\/ The options market is signaling a shift. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ETH?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ETH<\/a>\u2019s term structure is developing a kink around the March expiry, likely reflecting positioning ahead of Ethereum\u2019s Pectra upgrade, expected to go live in early April.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 QCP (@QCPgroup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QCPgroup\/status\/1891782401665401170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pectra, initially <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-targets-march-mainnet-activation-for-pectra\">scheduled<\/a> for early March 2025, is now anticipated to occur on April 8. This date was chosen by the consensus layer team during an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JhDgD366DKg\">ACDC Call<\/a> on February 6.<\/p>\n<p>According to QCP Capital, following The Merge in September 2022, a classic &#8220;buy the rumour, sell the news&#8221; model emerged\u2014Ethereum&#8217;s price more than doubled from its June lows, only to face a pullback.<\/p>\n<p>The next major upgrade, Shanghai in April 2023, was met with market pessimism due to fears of increased supply. When these fears were not realized, prices rose by 30% in the following months.<\/p>\n<p>Weakness in altcoins may also hinder recovery, experts believe.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Beyond market catalysts, sustainable growth will require significant progress in cryptocurrency adoption and network development, not just speculative flows,&#8221;<\/em> they concluded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ethereum faces &#8220;intense competition&#8221; from rival blockchain projects like Solana, according to analysts at JPMorgan.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, analysts suggested further weakening of digital assets amid political uncertainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interest in call options expiring after the Pectra hard fork on the Ethereum network is reshaping the cryptocurrency market amid uncertainty surrounding actions by U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a report by QCP Capital. Asia Colour \u2014 18 Feb 25 1\/ The options market is signaling a shift. #ETH\u2019s term structure is developing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1168,46,1145,1617,1326],"class_list":["post-21265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crypto-derivatives","tag-ethereum","tag-market-analysis","tag-pectra","tag-qcp-capital"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}